6/12/2023 0 Comments For Good by Karelia Stetz-Waters![]() Almost thirty years after Oranges, she was still writing about what a cold woman her mother was. I wanted to think that Winterson, my hero, my role model, had come farther in her emotional life. Moreover, the second half of Why Be Happy is about how Winterson’s unhappy childhood continued to haunt and hurt her in adulthood. ![]() I did not want Winterson to set the record straight and tell us, as she does, that her life sucked a little bit more than it did in Oranges. I read it when I was sixteen, the year I came out. In the real world, I just call that a memoir with embellishments.Įither way, I loved Oranges. ![]() In graduate school, I would have jumped on the postmodern implications of this statement. It is a novel about a girl named Jeanette who has a childhood very, very similar to Winterson’s. To be fair, Winterson explains in Why Be Happy that Oranges is not a memoir. ![]() Why Be Happy also promised to set the record straight about what was and was not true in Oranges. It’s just that Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal promised to cover approximately the same time period as her first memoir, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. That’s not my usual reaction to book releases. I was somewhat disappointed to learn that my all-time favorite lesbian writer had released a new memoir. ![]()
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